{"id":8951,"date":"2025-04-02T12:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:59:24","slug":"gratitude-from-one-old-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/gratitude-from-one-old-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude From One Old Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8952\" src=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anointing-sheep-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anointing-sheep-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Anointing-sheep.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\">The little sheep, cried aloud, beneath the shepherd\u2019s hand.<br \/>\nBowing her head, she surrendered to, this tender-hearted man.<br \/>\n\u201cHe anoints my head with oil, I am free from pests and I\u2019m clean<br \/>\nSo unworthy am I, but he loves me, and I\u2019m seen.<br \/>\nAn honor to be chosen from the shepherd\u2019s fold, but for what?<br \/>\nToo old to be sold!<br \/>\nOverlooked and lowly, I\u2019m not at all bold!<br \/>\nAfraid of my own shadow, fear grips me on every side.<br \/>\nWhere can I run too? Where can I hide?<br \/>\nFrightened, even when I seek water, from the moving, bubbling, stream.<br \/>\nYet, He waits for still waters just to keep me calm and serene.<br \/>\nOh, what love the shepherd offers to one lost sheep\u2026<br \/>\nHe leaves all the others to rescue me from the deep\u2026<br \/>\nCaught in a thicket, his rod reaches in and pulls me out\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019m complete.<br \/>\nHe holds me close as I tremble.<br \/>\nHe soothes my tattered heart.<br \/>\nHe kisses me and holds me, even in the dark.<br \/>\nI was once a young lamb and of not much worth\u2026<br \/>\nI am now an old sheep, still the shepherd keeps\u2026<br \/>\nRescuing me and when I weep\u2026<br \/>\nHe hears my cries and extends my days\u2026<br \/>\nForever, I will follow him, and dwell with him, always!<\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill April 2, 2025<\/h6>\n<h6>Psalm 23:5 King James Version &#8211; Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The little sheep, cried aloud, beneath the shepherd\u2019s hand. Bowing her head, she surrendered to, this tender-hearted man. \u201cHe anoints my head with oil, I am free from pests and I\u2019m clean So unworthy am I, but he loves me, and I\u2019m seen. An honor to be chosen from the shepherd\u2019s fold, but for what?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-2kn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8954,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions\/8954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}